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SAMUEL ROLLES DRIVER (1846– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 585 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMUEL ROLLES DRIVER (1846– )  ,
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English divine and
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Hebrew scholar, was born at Southampton on the 2nd of
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October 1846 . He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he had a distinguished career, taking a first class in Literae Humaniores in 1869 . He was awarded the Pusey and Ellerton scholarship in 1866, the Kennicott scholarship in 187o (both Hebrew), and the Houghton
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Syriac prize in 1872 . From 187o he was a
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fellow, and from 1875 also a tutor, of New College, and in 1883 succeeded Pusey as regius professor of Hebrew and
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canon of Christ Church . He was a member of the Old Testament Revision Committee (1876–1884) and examining
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chaplain to the bishop of Southwell (1884–19o4); received the honorary degrees of doctor of literature of
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Dublin (1892), doctor of divinity of
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Glasgow (1901), doctor of literature of Cambridge (1905); and was elected a fellow of the
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British Academy in 1902 . Dr Driver devoted his
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life to the study, both textual and critical, of the Old Testament . Among his numerous
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works are commentaries on Joel and Amos (1897);
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Deuteronomy (1902); Daniel (root); Genesis (1909); the Minor Prophets, Nahum to
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Malachi (1905) ;
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Job (1905);
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Jeremiah (1906);
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Leviticus (1894 Hebrew text, 1898 trans. and notes);
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Samuel (Hebrew text, 1890) . Among his more general works are:
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Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew (1892); Isaiah, his Life and Times (1893); Introd. to the Literature of the Old Test . (1897, ed . 1909) ; Sermons on Subjects connected with the Old Testament (1892); The Parallel Psalter (1904); Heb. and Eng .
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Lexicon of the O.T . (in collaboration, 1906);
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Modern Research as illustrating the Bible (1909) ; articles in the Ency .

Brit., Ency . Bibl. and

Hastings' Dict. of the Bible .

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